Milking-stool.



M. HAMILTON. MILKING STOOL. APPLIOATION FILED N018) 1905.

IPATENTED MAR. 20, 190.6.

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I I J Attorneys P TENT ouron? MERRILL T. HAMILTON, or NEWPORT; VERMONT.

. I MILKING-STOOL'.

To allwhom itmwy concern/.

Be itknownthat I, MERRILL T. HAMIIi- TON, a citizen'of the United states residing at New ort, in the county of Orleans-and State Vermont, have invented a new and useful Milking-Stool, of which the following isaspecification. v

ThlS invention relates to milking-stools and has for its object to provide the same with improvedmeans for sup orting a pail thereon in position to receive t e milk and to tuating the pail-hol ing devices, and thereby enable the convenient release of the pail without necessitating the removal of fastening devices. In this connection it is proposed to make use of the wei ht of the operator for acto immediately-release the pail when the operator rises from the seat.

' A still further object of the invention is to enable the convement shifting of the pail from side to side without releasing the same i from the stool and to enable the operator to present invention consists 1n the combination 1 use his knees for shifting the pail the usual manner. 1 a

With these and other objects in view the and arrangement ofv parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, andparticularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor-details may be made within the-scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the-invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a milking-stool equipped with the ail-holding means of the resent invention. ig. 2 is a longitudinal sect1onal view thereof with a milk-pail held thereon.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in both of the figures of the drawings.

The present stool includes anordinary seat 1 and supporting-legs 2, the seat being re' ed an arm 6, which terminates at its rear end c in a hook or eye 7, engaging an eyebolt 8,

Specification of Letters Batent. i r Application-filed liove nber 8,1905. Serial No. 286,399.

Patented March 20,1906.

provided with a loop or eye 9, slidably embracing the bar 4, soas to support the outer piercing said otherleg of the stool; The for ward free end of thexarm projects in front of the front legs "and is twisted or otherwiseend of the arm and at the same time permit depressed seat 10, preferably by bending the- "lateral swinging movement thereof. .In i'rontof' the bar 4 the arm is providedwith a arm downwardly andthen upwardly, and P acrossthe other .SidGf of the seat isa crosshead 11, which may be formed by bending the extremity of the 'bar back .and'forth 1 i Y 7'0 ,i U on the top of the main seat 1 there is a supp emental seat 12, which is hinged to the: i

back of the mainseat, as. at 13. The fortransversely of the same.

ward portion of the top of the main seat is";

cut away or rovided w1th a recess 14 for the reception 0' pail-holding means carried by the under side of the supplemental seat. Upon the under side of the supplemental seat I there is an arm 15, whiohhas its rear end piv- 1 main seat being provided witha socket or 1 dted to the supplemental seat, as at 16, the

opening 17 'toreceive the lower end of the supported by means of a yoke-sha ed ;'guard 18, carried by the under side-of t e supple inental seat and disposed transversely therei of, the recessed portion 14 of thamain seatfl being provided with a transversegroove or.

socket :19 to receive the guardin the depressed position of the supplemental seat.

pivot 16 when the supplemental seat isdepressed. The free portionlof the arm 15 is The arm :15 project'sin front of the seatand has anupstanding portion, 20, rising above the seat and then turned downwardly, as at if I 21, for engagement. with the top edge of a all i 'Normallythe supplemental seat is sup ported in an elevate position, as in Fig. 1,

. y means of a helical spring 23, interposed between the two seats and received within a IOO socket 24 in the main seat, there being a lirniting device consisting of a bolt or pin 25, piercing and carried by the supplemental seat and also' working through the spring 23 and an opening 26 in the main seat. A stop element 27 is provided upon the lower end of i the pin or bolt 25 for engagement with the under side of the main seat to limit the'upward movement of the supplemental seat.

In practice a milk-pail, such as shown at 28 in Fig. 2 of the'drawings, is engaged with the'holding devices by having its rim re- I IO ceived within the depressed seat 10, with the cross-head 11 engaging the inner side of the bottom flange of the pail, the upper pail-holding device being engaged over the rim of the pail when the operator seats himself, wherey the weight of the operator will hold the pail clamped between the upper and lower pail-holding devices in the usual position of the pail as when normally held between the knees of the operator. It will of course be understood that the pail is received between the knees of the operator in the usual manner, and by reason of the swinging mounting of the upper and lower pail holding or clamping members the pail may be shifted from side to side by the knees of the operator with the same ease as when the pail is held by the operator himelf. Prior to rising from the seat the operator takes hold of the handle of the pail, and when he removes his weight from the seat the supplemental seat will be elevated by the spring 23 and the upper pailholding element thereby disengaged from the pail, whereupon the pail may be removed without further adjustment or detachment of any of the other elements.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that the improvements of the present invention are all carried by the stool and are always in positionto be conveniently engaged witha pail and require no special preparation or adjustment when engaging the, same with a pail. Furthermore, the holding means do not interfere with the shifting of the pail from side to side, and it relieves the operator of the strain' of holding the pail between his knees;

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A milking-stool provided with upper and lower pail-holding devices to engage the top and bottom of the pail, one of these members being movable vertically and controlled by the weight of the user to clamp the pail between the two holding members. A milking-stool provided with a springsupported supplemental seat, and upper and lower pail-holding members, one of which is movable vertically'and controlled by the depression of the supplemental seat.

3. A milking-stool provided with a springsup orted supplemental seat, a lower pailhol er carried by the stool, and an upper pailholder carried by the supplemental seat.

4. A milking-stool provided with a springpressed supplemental seat, and a pail-holder controlled by the supplemental seat, said pail-holder capable of being shifted laterally independently of the seat.

, '5. A leg-supported milking-stool having a lower pail-holder carried by the legs thereof, a' yieldably-su ported supplemental seat, and an u per pai -holder carried by the supplementa seat.

6. A milking-stool having a lower pailholder, a yieldably-supported supplemental seat, and an upper pail-holder carried by the supplemental seat, the two pail-holders capable of being shifted laterally independently of the seat.

7. A leg-supported milking-stool having a cross-bar connecting adjacent legs, a swinging arm connected to one of the other legs and slidably supported upon the crossbar, the outer free end of the arm being provided with a pail-engaging element, a yieldablysupported supplemental seat, and a swinging pail-holder carried thereby.

' 8. A milking-stool having a lower pailholder, a yieldably-sup orted supplemental seat, and an n per pailolder carried by the under side of the supplemental seat. I

9. A milking-stool having a main seat, a supplemental seat, and a pail-holder carried by the under side of the supplemental seat, the main seat being recessed to receive the pail-holder.

10. A milking-stool having a yieldablysupported supplemental seat, and a pailholder carried by the under side of the supplemental seat, one of the seats of the stool being recessed to receive the pail holder when the supplemental seat is depressed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MERRILL T. HAMILTON.

Witnesses:

H. A. BLACK, TIMOTHY HANNAN. 

